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grunnlendt mark

Glossary entry

Norwegian term or phrase:

fastmark

English translation:

solid ground

Added to glossary by Sven Petersson
Aug 18, 2005 09:16
19 yrs ago
Norwegian term

fastmark

Norwegian to English Science
"Annen jorddekt fastmark". On a listing for a biodiversity map. The best I've managed to find is "inland unvegetated or sparsely vegetated habitats", but does anyone know of any shorter and perhaps more concise alternatives?
Proposed translations (English)
3 +1 solid ground
3 mineral soil

Discussion

brigidm (asker) Aug 19, 2005:
Dry open land After spending (too much) time on this one, I finally plumped for "other dry open land with soil cover". Thank you Sven and Don for your input.
Richard Lawson Aug 18, 2005:
I'm afraid I haven't seen a translation of the Norwegian land use classification. A search on ["land use classification" site:no] reveals a number of hits that might be useful. Otherwise, the EEA Glossary which you have already found is quite useful.
Non-ProZ.com Aug 18, 2005:
Arealklasser It's in a map listing, so if I use it, I end up with "Other soil-covered sparsely vegetated habitats", which is rather long. I've tried to find if there's an english translation of the above (land use classification) - you don't happen to know if there is one available, Richard?
Richard Lawson Aug 18, 2005:
The European Environment Agency Environmental Glossary gives the solution you cite here, which would seem to fit your context. However, a forestry glossary published by Glommen skogeierforening has simply "firm ground".

Proposed translations

+1
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solid ground

:o)
Peer comment(s):
agree Per Bergvall : As opposed, I suppose, to marshland etc. Even "soil-covered groud" would work well for me...
42 mins
Thank you very much!
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mineral soil

The first source below (and others) give "mineral soil", while the second gives "well-drained ground". Perhaps one of these may help you arrive at what you want.
Reference:

http://www.svo.se/fakta/stat/vocab.htm

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:m30G4ngio5sJ:www.ma.slu.se/IMA/Publikationer/internserie/2004-23.pdf+fastmark+soil&

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